AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 8: Clinical Psychology Set ll

False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.

False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.

A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause.

A disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. (Also called functional neurological symptom disorder.)

A disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. (Formerly called hypochondriasis.)

Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (disassociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder.

An eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15 percent or more) underweight.

An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by vomiting or laxative use) or fasting.

Significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa.

Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.

A personality disorder in which a person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.

An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist’s interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.

In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).

Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.